Author's Notes…

I do not own 9, or any of his friends, though I certainly wish that I did.

Special thanks to Sean Akers, whose premier film inspired me to think like the AP student I am about God, souls, creation and other such stuff for the first time in a long time.

Dedicated to the rebels of the world, ready to get out from under their "overbearing" parents, as well as those of us who can no longer do simple math without all the stitch-punks dancing through their heads. XD

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7-Song

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You say you'll take care of me, but your actions do not say the same.

You're only trying to keep me down, and I don't want to play at your game.

There's a world that I want to see; I was made to be free like a bird.

But I feel like I'm going to drown, 'cause my freedom hangs on your sole word.

So you've decided to hide my face,

And lock me up in this tiny place?

Well that isn't fine with me.

I feel like I'm all alone, and I fear that I'll never escape.

It's a cage, though it's made of gold, but I'm making the best that I can make.

But then I look at how much I've grown, and I think that I may have a chance;

And it's risky, so I've been told, but it's time that I learned my own dance.

I want to go show the world my face,

And if it means I must leave this place,

Then that's just fine with me.

I can go anywhere I please, and do all that I've wanted to do;

I can see what I want to see, and I don't have to run it by you.

I can fight for myself with ease, growing stronger with every day.

I'm on my own, and I'm finally free, no longer bound by what you say.

So at last, I can show my face,

And I'm going to find my place.

I'm never going back to that pain,

And we never will meet again,

And that's just fine with me.